The New Mithraeum Database

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083

Butcher who dedicated a statue of Mercurius Quillenius in the Mithraeum of Groß-Gerau.

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

TNMM105 – CIMRM 1110

The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.

TNMM253 – CIMRM 1361

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull were put together...

TNMM576 – CIMRM 1359, 1360

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

TNMM216

These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.

TNMM593 – CIMRM 1055, 1056

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

TNMM197

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

TNMM406 – CIMRM 1115

This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.

TNMM562 – CIMRM 1308

The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

TNMM205 – CIMRM 1283

Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

TNMM177 – CIMRM 1289

Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.

TNMM48 – CIMRM 1282

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

TNMM70 – CIMRM 1291

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

TNMM237 – CIMRM 1687

The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.

TNMM573

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

TNMM563

Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

TNMM507